Democratic Watdwan
Bellatoults, b., Jauary 6, 1911.
MARK TWAIN'S | CLOTHES.
The Great Humorist morn. Always Had =
Relish For Personal Effect.
At the time of our first meeting
Mark Twain was wearing a sealskin
coat, with the fur out, in the satis-
faction of a caprice or the love of
strong effect which he was apt to in-
dulge through life. Fields, the publish-
er, was present.
1 do mot know what droll comment
was in Fields’ mind with respect to
t¥is garment. but probably he felt
that here was an original who was
not to be brought to any Bostonian
book in the judgment of his vivid
qualities. With his crest of dense red
hair and the wide sweep of his flam-
ing mustache Clemens was not dis-
cordantly clothed in that sealskin coat,
which afterward. in spite of his own
warmth In it. sent the cold chills
through me when I once accompanied.
it down Broadway. and shared the
immense publicity it won him.
Clemens had always a relish for per
sonal effect. which expressed itself in
the white suit of complete serge which
he wore in his last years and in the
Oxford gown which he put on for
every possible occasion and sald he
would like to wear all the time. That
was not vanity in him. but a keen feel-
ing for costume which the severity of
our modern tailoring forbids men,
though it flatters women to every ex-
cess in 1t.—W. D. Howells in Har-
per's Magazine.
Better Late Than Not at All.
The pastor of the little country church
had been much annoyed by having the
members of his congregation straggle
in long after the service had begun.
One Sunday morning. when he felt that
further forbearance with this fault was
impossible, he decided to rebuke some
conspicuous offender. About twenty
minutes later than the proper hour
there entered a mild mannered little
woman, one of the regular attendants
of the church, but quite incorrigible In
her tardiness. The minister looked up,
fixed her with his spectacles and re-
marked:
“Sister, you are very much behind
time. I hope you will not be so late in
getting into heaven.”
The little woman looked up, smiled
sweetly and without a trace of confu-
sion replied placidly:
“1 shan't care about that. doctor, so
long as 1 get there.”
And now the pastor feels that the
mile that went round the church some-
how spoiled the effectiveness of his
feprimand.—New York Tribune,
Chinese and the Morse Code.
Difficulties of the Chinese language
were ably demonstrated when the
problem arose of adapting it to tele-
graphy. How was it possible to apply
the Morse alphabet to a language
which has no alphabet at all, but con-
gists of nearly 44000 characters?
Then it was impossible to treat Chi-
nese phonetically, writing down the
sound of the Chinese words in Euro-
pean letters and translating them into
Morse dots and dashes, because no
such system could deal with the Chi-
nese niceties of intonation. The in-
genious solution came from a Danish
professor. He simply codified the
7,000 commonest Chinese characters,
representing each by numerals. Thus
the Chinese word for “cash” became
6030 in the code, and the operator had
only to send the code signal for that.
Rachel's Onion.
1 was amused by the observations of
a retired actress who sat beside me at
the Conservatoire examinations and in
an undertone thought aloud as the
recitations went on.
“Why so much weeping and wring-
ing of the hands?" she said of a can-
didate attempting Andromaque. “How
she spoils her nice young face in at-
tempting to force tears from her eyes!
At this distance nobody could scent an
onfon in her pocket handkerchief.
Rachel resorted to that trick in
‘Adrienne Lecouvreur,’ and the tears
flowed freely without facial contor-
tions. I heard it said that as she left
the stage she gave the onion she held
to Prince Napoleon to eat in salad and
that he did so.”—Paris Letter to Lon-
don Truth.
Insurance Gambling.
The Britisher's favorite gambling is
insurance gambling. He will take out
a policy against anything, from the
death of the king to the loss of a horse
race by a thoroughbred. Marine in-
surance gambling by those who have
no direct interest in the safety of a
ship or its cargo grew into such abuses
that parliament was compelled to pass
a drastic act to prevent such gambling
on marine accidents and losses by
those not otherwise concerned.
Social Slights.
“Mrs. Jangle says she can remember
when that fashionable Cumrox family
didn’t know where the next meal was
coming from.”
“Well,” replied Miss Cayenne, “it's
evident she didn't invite them to dine
with her then. so there's no reason
why they should invite her now."—
Washington Star.
Audible Sleep.
“ls Mrs. Schnorer in?" asked the
caller.
“Yes, ma'am,” answered the maid of
all work in the boarding house. “She's
at present in her room.”
“Are you sure?’
“Yes, ma'am. I just overheard her
taking a nap.”
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HIRED APPLAUSE. |
The Great Rachel Made the Clague |
Earn Its Money. |
Speaking of applause in theaters, a
theatrical map relates the following |
concerning the great actress Rachel:
“It seems that upon a certain open- |
ing night Rachel received enthusiastic |
applause, Lut on the second night it
was so noticeably siim that the actress |
felt deeply grieved and bitterly com- |
plained that the claque was not doing |
its duty. The leader of the hired ‘ap-
plause makers’ on hearing of her dis- |
pleasure wrote her a letter in which he |
endeavored to excuse himself from any
blame.
“ *Mademoiselle—] cannot remain un- |
der the obloquy of a reproach from !
such lips as yours,’ he began. ‘The !
following Is an authentic statement of |
what really took place: At the first |
representation 1 led the attack in per
gon not less than thirty-three times.
We had three acclamations, four hilar |
ities. two thrilling movements, four |
renewals of applause and two indefl- |
nite explosions. In fact, to such an
extent did we carry our applause that
the occupants of the stalls were scan-
dalized and cried out a la porte!
“My men were positively 3 isd | |
| whose members were so
The Fempter Won.
When the late Baron Nordcnskjold
was nt Ceylon on the way home from
his journey along the northern coast of
Siberia he received a telegram from
! the Russian government asking hiv
whether he would accept from th:
| czar a certain decoration as an appre
ciation of his services to Russia. F:¢
many days the famous eSplofer wr
ered, as he was a member of Bj
| sterne Bjornson's Anti-dee oration club,
raniy pledged
never to accept any decoration from
anybody. Nordenskjold, however, couid
| not resist the temptation. so he replied
to the telegram in the affirmative. It
| is not hard to imagine his disappoint-
: ment when, upon reaching home, a
friend of his. a high official. told him
the following: ‘The Russian govern-
ment was well aware of your antago-
| nistic views in regard to decorations
i and had. therefore, placed in readiness
800,000 rubles to be paid you in the
event of your refusing to accept the
insignia, but before paying that sum
they wanted to try your firmness. Rus-
' sia is certainly grateful to you for
with fatigue and even intimated tome | New Orleans one day several winters
that they could not again go through | ago an undertaker named Mr. Dooley
such an evening.
the case, I applied for the manuscript, | to the cemetery. Dooley had a friend
and after having profoundly studied | with him, another Irishman, who ex-
the piece 1 was obliged to make up my | | claimed, “Sure, death always wins.”
mind for the second representation to There happened to be a horse entered
certain curtallments in the service of | that day named Death, znd he won
my men.
“The writer thus goes on at some
length to assure the actress he will |
try to make future amends and re-
quests her to believe in his profound '
admiration.” —-Exchange. |
TALKING IN FIGURES.
Significance of Certain Numbers In the !
Telegraphers’ Code.
“In the telegraphers’ code numbers |
have special significance of which the |
general public is
a veteran key
not aware,” remarked |
night the other day. |
“Most everybody knows that 30 |
means ‘good night! or the end of a |
story. but few outside the profession
know that 31 is also a code sign. Rall- |
road operators. however, know that |
this eall is a signal to the operator at |
the other end to come back nnd repeat |
train signals to the sending operator. |
It also har another meaning, ‘Train |
order to be signed by conductor and
engine driver. Nineteen. on the other
hand. means that the train order is not
to be signed by conductor or engine
driver. Twenty-four has also the lat- °
ter significance on some roads.
“Five is simply an interrogation
point and in the vernacular could be !
translated ‘Anything doing? Thirteen |
signifies ‘Do you understand? Twen- }
ty-five means ‘busy,’ but nobody seems i
to know how it came to have that sig-
nificance unless perhaps it means that
the operator is still in the midst of his
work, being some distance away from
30. :
“Seventy-three means ‘best regards,’ |
and newspaper men and operators em-
ploy this expression constantly. of
course 23 has come to mean in thir
numerical language just what it doe: |
in ordinary parlance, ‘skiddoo’ ‘va- |
moose’ or ‘butt out’ or any of the thou- |
sand and one other equivalents.”—New |
York Herald. |
The Governor's Quick Wit. i
While talking to a former governor |
of Illinois, who was noted for the |
quickness of his wit, an English tour- |
ist spoke with special fervor of a sight |
he had seer in another state. |
«1 attended a Sunday service for
the inmates of the state prison,” he
said, “and I learned that of the 20°
persons now confined there all but
twelve voluntarily attend religious
services held in the prison chapel twice
each Sunday.”
“Most extraordinary,” said the gov-
ernor musingly. “I am sorry to say it
is not so with us. But then,” he add-
ed soberly. “in Illinois, you see, most
of the respectable people do not come
to prison.”—Lippincott’s.
Sign Language.
Brown and Jones were having thelr
usual stroll and had just had a few
minutes’ conversation with Robinson,
who was accom by his wife.
After they had gone on some little dis-
tance Brown said to Jones: :
“Did you notice that Mrs. Robinson
never said a word?" i
“Qh, yes,” said Jones. “You see, she's
deaf and dumb.” i
“Lucky chap is Robinson. But I sup-
pose she can talk with her fingers?" |
asked Brown. *“
“I think so,” replied Jones, “for Rob- |
inson hasn't a dozen hairs left on his |
head.”
Settlement Work. i
“Came into a fortune, didn’t he? |
“Yes, a big one.”
“What's he doin’ these days?’ i
“He has become interested in settle- |
ment work.” i
“Well. that ought to keep him occu-
pied for awhile; he owed everybody." |
—Houston Post. |
His Night Work.
Cynical Friend—If the baby is the
boss of the establishment and his
mother is the superintendent, pray |
what position do you occupy? Young |
Father (wearily)—Oh, I'm the floor |
walker.—Baltimore American.
Jewelry Galore. :
Mrs. Horie ouyend with jewels, |
isn't she? Mrs. Doyle—Yes; it is hard |
to tell at first glance whether she be:
longs to the mineral or animal king- | i
dom.—Life.
Want of care does more damage than i
want of knowledge.— Franklin. STREET
“Whatever possessed you to do that.
girl?" asked the mistress on coming
again in the kitchen. /
The girl simply replied:
“Well. ma'am, please ma'am. I
thought it was the fashion of the
house, ma'am!” —London Tit-Bits. of the improved
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“The Cleaner That Cleans Clean"
For Bitter Medicine.
Nauseous medicine has been ere now |
disguised in fruit and jelly. covered |
with sugar, drowned in wine and cof-
fee, but it remained for a western
woman to discover the taking of cream
as an alleviation of the bitter taste.
She says a spoonful! of cream in the
mouth before and after taking makes |
the worst medicine harmless. Certain- |
We want to sup-
ply one lady in every
borhood witha
“Sim Vv m
iy it is worth trying. though whether Copley’ for pi
the effect will wear away for the ba- | tising purposes.
bitua! taker deponent saith not. i
Write today for
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Alexander the Great is said to have
' The “Simplex”
used a speaking trumpet.
. s guaranteed to do
as good work as
electric machines
Costing $100.00 and
It is light in /
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secret of success.—De Maitre.
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your failure to live up to your pledge.” Castoria. nt (only 20 Ibe; ENTRAL RAILROAD OF PENNSYLVANIA.
| runs extremely easy | Condensed Time Table effective June 17, 1909.
Death W Li | and can be rated —
as a Live One. ! perfectly and easily READ DOWN READ UP.
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ened and ran away and was not stop- Sotitaia fer Opi m, M ne nor : ictures very WALLACE H. GEPHART,
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“you're a dead one now, Death.” said Flatulency, nt assimilates the Food, i argent, ‘tory of the Progress of thia Mechan- Schedule to take effect Mondav. lan. 6. 1910
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teen races.”—Baltimore American. acea—The ry an awyers, | bichars, pF arers. Ben van —————— | STATIONS. HE
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tress was known to have a hasty tem- CHAS. H. FLETCHER. things How io make repairs, a5 ar for 217710276 15 A 545
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girl wis at the farmhouse she was told “Amateur Meeh-nics” Jorazes,selishow 22610346 535
. by the mistress to clean the boots In Use For Over 30 Years. 54-36-2lm Juratiure, wirdeta,! boats, engines, magic, and al) 13 ne $ tg in
ready for Sunday. The mistress on $1.50 per Ne ih copies 15 cents z 5
coming into the kitchen later on saw ASK YOUR NEWEDEALER Or Address 7
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Clothing.
ON FEBRUARY THE FIRST
There will be a change in the firm of M. Fauble & Son.
Bellefonte.
Allegheny St.,
During this month our entire stock of
Clothing, Suits, Overcoats, Rain Coats and Trous-
ers for Men, Boys and Children
will be subject to a price reduction averaging from 25 7
to 40 per cent., also liberal reductions on certain fur- ts
nishings and Hats. There will be no brass band, no ~~. .
big posters, none of the circus methods employed to ps
make this sale a success, simply an Honest Sale con-
ducted Honestly, one that will help you to save more
than we care to tell you, more than you will expect.
You will find it worth your while to
Visit Us Some Time During This Month.
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